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Date: 1900-2000
Language: Italian
Origin: storia novella 'new story', from novello 'new', from Latin novellus; NOVEL2

novella

 noun
     
Related topics: Literature
no‧vel‧la [countable]
AL a story that is shorter than a novel, but longer than a short story
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